2019
DOI: 10.22230/cjc.2019v44n4a3721
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The (Black) Elephant in the Room: McLuhan and the Racial

Abstract: Background This article combines Marshall McLuhan’s media theory with the “racial contract” theory of political philosopher Charles Mills.Analysis  Mills critiques the older, Western “social contract,” which holds that “Western man” moves from a “state of nature” (or McLuhan’s tribal man) into “civilization” (McLuhan’s detribal man and retribal man) via organizing with similar humans to establish the rules, laws, codes, guidelines, and, as is argued here, technologies necessary for human cohabitation. Mills ar… Show more

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“…11. See also Towns (2019) who adopts a similar strategy in crossreading Marshall McLuhan, Charles Mills and Frantz Fanon and Shilliam (2021) who contrasts Immanuel Kant and Sylvia Wynter in Chapter 2 of his book. 12.…”
Section: N Ot Esmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…11. See also Towns (2019) who adopts a similar strategy in crossreading Marshall McLuhan, Charles Mills and Frantz Fanon and Shilliam (2021) who contrasts Immanuel Kant and Sylvia Wynter in Chapter 2 of his book. 12.…”
Section: N Ot Esmentioning
confidence: 99%